Not quite in midseason form...yet

[MadeToSucceed]

Well it's been interesting since I last posted. I'll try to do it in chunks by day. Quite a bit of GAL'ing and a "development" of sorts as well.

Friday was a short day at work. I took my exam for a class during my lunch break. I feel pretty good about it and should have an A in the course. I had a few more pants altered on Friday as well. Slowly trying to transform my clothes into ones that I can wear without them falling off me. Friday afternoon I was invited by the corporate sponsors of the bowl game that I'm working with to a pre-game event. They rented out a restaurant and all of the big wigs of each university attended. While there I actually ran into a photographer who has taken pics of my W before. We chatted briefly. It was really great getting to talk to so many people there. I even talked to the President of the entire bowl game. He was extremely nice and seemed very interested in me and my background and gave me some great words of wisdom. I plan on sending him and several others follow up thank you emails today.

That evening I went to dinner with my friend (I'm in his wedding next month), his fiance, her mother and daughter. We had a good time and talking some about my sitch. My friend's fiance wants to talk to my wife. She's in her early 30s and has been divorced before and truly believes she could help my W with insight. She was pretty adamant about wanting to talk to her and said she wouldn't even be encouraging her to return to our M but rather trying to help my W see the bigger picture. I'm not sure if she is going to go that direction or not but I told her what she could possibly expect my W's response to be.

Friday night I went out with my bestfriend and actual ran into a mutual friend my W and I. She went to school with us and she's really the first person we both used to spend time with that I ran into unexpectedly in a public setting since this whole ordeal. It was kind of awkward for me because I'm weary of who knows what but I kept it light and fun and kept it moving. Later in the evening she found me and pulled me to the side. She flat out asked "Are you single?" I showed her my wedding ring and said no but I am going through a divorce currently. She looked me dead in my eyes and said "You didn't hear this from me but just know that you are handling yourself extremely well. It's admirable and you deserve better. I wish nothing ill on anyone but karma is a b***h. Keep doing what you're doing and leaning on God and you'll be alright." And she walked off. I didn't get too up or down off of it but inside it did make me smile to know that apparently people have taken notice of all kinds of stuff and that I am heading in the right direction still.